About the Education Village

About the Education Village

The Education Village is a hard Federation of three schools...

  • Haughton Academy (900 place Secondary School)
  • Beaumont Hill Academy (225 place Special School)
  • Springfield Academy (210 place Primary School plus 26FTE place nursery)

...which together make up an all age (2 – 19), all ability school with 1,400 pupils known as The Education Village

The Education Village was opened at Easter 2006 by Tony Blair, then Prime Minister. The three schools are housed in a state of the art building funded by £43 million privately-financed initiative (PFI) and a shared annual budget of £11 million.

From the beginning, it offered something completely new and became a by-word for innovation and 21st Century learning. The Education Village was the first education organisation in the country to involve the creation of a single setting where schools are not just co-located on a single site, but actually live together under one roof.

The Education Village was always more than a building housing three schools, it became the enactment of a vision of providing genuine personalised learning opportunities, utilising the skill and expertise cross phase and cross school.

Nevertheless the building was (and is) impressive, attracting 4 000 visitors from all over the world in the first two years of opening. More importantly, it provides world class facilities in which our teachers can teach and our students can learn. Moreover, it has become a centre for the community with opening hours from 8am - 10pm offering activities from Zumba to Karate.

There is Single distributed leadership model with one Principal with statutory headship responsibility for all three schools in addition to a school level leader providing clarity to parents, staff and students.